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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Priya Wadhera Abstract In Word of Mouth: What We Talk about When We Talk about Food (2014), Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson discusses “food fears,” recognizing how food can be both a source of sustenance and pleasure and, at the same time, a site of danger and death. In this article, I endeavor...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (1): 87–111.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Kathleen Long Abstract The régime de santé , already by the end of the medieval era a well-developed genre that offered advice on diet and other health practices, found new life in the sixteenth century as the Galenic works on food and hygiene that informed it were translated into Latin and even...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Janet Beizer Abstract This article explores the concept of the arlequin , the plate of used food collected piecemeal from the tables of the rich to sell to the poor, as it was popularized by Eugène Sue in 1842 in his blockbuster novel Les Mystères de Paris . I show how this alimentary genre...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 305–320.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Cary Hollinshead-Strick Abstract If the idea of cuisine invites readers to an elite place of appreciation, as Priscilla Ferguson has shown, comparing newspapers to leftovers and subsistence food is a move designed to generate suspicion. Nineteenth-century authors wary of press innovations compared...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 336–358.
Published: 01 September 2021
.... Examining an overlooked corpus of primary school readers and textbooks, I show that food and cooking provided object lessons imparting practical and scientific knowledge to enlighten the masses, and textbooks canonized regional specialties as part of a new national geographic consciousness. At the same time...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 181–187.
Published: 01 September 2021
... toward the “making of a culture”: here she argues that French cuisine was a central building block in the construction of a French national identity. Drawing a distinction between “food”—the material substance, and “cuisine”—a cultural and social construct, Ferguson takes her readers on a culinary...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (2): 317–340.
Published: 01 September 2023
... inspired by the dramatic strike of 1920 at La Fortuna Fábrica de Galletas, in which large numbers of women workers took part. 14 When the factory owners employed strikebreakers, violence erupted in the streets, and workers in other sectors of food production (including bakers of bread) also struck...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 77–88.
Published: 01 January 2000
... keeps surveillance, monitoring the admission and release of words and food, the carefully selected guests he entertains in his being. Ultimately, as this paper argues, des Esseintes' aim to obliterate boundaries and restore a state of undifferentiation permitting him to be the infant-book containing...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (2): 207–231.
Published: 01 March 2005
... the cOlllmunallueal in order, it would seenl, to clean the television set, using her serviette as a cloth and her soup as a cleaning fluid). In Apprendre a fiuir, food and drink have a highly sYlllbolic status. Cer- tainly, the narrator's desire to provide high-quality restorative food for her injured husband...
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Romanic Review (2011) 102 (1-2): 217–234.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... The Romanic Review Volume 102 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University 218 BRIAN MARTIN in 1812-13. Although Napoleon succeeded in taking Moscow, the Russians' scorched-earth tactics left the city uninhabitable and Napoleon's men exposed to a long winter without sufficient food, shelter, or resources...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 561–577.
Published: 01 May 2010
... austerity and sacrifice (food coupons, sugar and meat rationing) and in which spending was to be directed altruistically and sacrificially (war bonds, care packages for soldiers). There are three things to note about this response to September 11 th, however, besides the way that it exemplifies a turn from...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 288–291.
Published: 01 January 2010
... if, like all of us, you're from Paris-to enjoy it. The poverty that surrounded me seemed natural to the place; the food seemed to be nectar; the women were kind to me. One might say that as I had with Donald Frame, I missed the point. I was as it were unknowingly translated into the Creuse: I did not have...
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Romanic Review (2000) 91 (1-2): 163–187.
Published: 01 January 2000
... food), "macie" (with hunger), and "pereo fame" (I am dying of starvation). Continuing to eschew metaphysical determinism and its concomittant morality, Phaedrus's poem similarly portrays a dog whose advice is more matter-of-fact than enticing. In Samaniego, though, the dog insists that the wolf must...
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Romanic Review (2003) 94 (3-4): 255–260.
Published: 01 May 2003
... CONDE 257 Lydie Moudileno, former student and current friend of Conde, is similarly intrigued by the presence of the personal in the latter's fiction. More specifically, she is interested in the non-presence-or the "presence spectrale"-of food in the works of Conde, a self-proclaimed "excellente...
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Romanic Review (2006) 97 (3-4): 353–369.
Published: 01 May 2006
...) of the imaginary kingdom of Bourdes, who was able to prepare delicious food for his king, has died and his death has initiated a political crisis. The people protest, and the three royal cooks, in order to calm the situation down, promise to organize a banquet. However, their real goal is just to barricade...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 359–361.
Published: 01 September 2021
... is essential to get food out of the kitchen into a more stable cultural form, so too art and science take flowers out of the garden into the books, the engravings, the prints, and the paintings that proliferated along with, and to a certain extent because of, the new roses of the nineteenth century...
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Romanic Review (2001) 92 (4): 455–478.
Published: 01 November 2001
... rituals-offering to others and consuming food and drink in the company of others.20 Her goods provide her customers with the means to mark significant occasions in their lives. Thus, she expands the "commemorative" side of Joseph's business (the "dejeuners en porcelaine 'souvenir rna premiere communion...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (3): 409–424.
Published: 01 May 2010
...: the father of Papa Longoue's lover Edmee, embittered by her departure five years previously, decides to hold a wake for her. The father insists on following the rituals of the wake to the last detail, lighting candles, procuring holy water, and preparing food and drink for the mourners. Monsieur Pamphile...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (3): 403–405.
Published: 01 May 2009
... pluralist perspective to its subject matter, the book offers much food for thought. It invites us to reevaluate various types of writing strategy, and to consider the work of several authors in a new light. Although Baetens perhaps raises more questions than he answers about the limits and possibilities...
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Romanic Review (2021) 112 (2): 261–279.
Published: 01 September 2021
... to refer to the pleasures of the mouth and food consumption, the primacy of speech over the written word in popular urban cultures, and the oralization of novelistic language, which, in writers like Zola and Vallès, aims to express people’s voices (see Saminadayar-Perrin, “Cultures orales”). 3. I...
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